“No, I’m running on too fast: I bestow my own attributes over-liberally on him.”

— Emily Brontë , book Wuthering Heights

Mr. Lockwood on Heathcliff (Ch. I).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

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English novelist and poet 1818–1848

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